Jing State and Mu Kingdom had jointly built the Border Wasteland defense line, resisting the Devil Race together. Both were likewise pressured by the central Jing Kingdom, and had long engaged in much cooperation. Among the hegemonic states of the world, they were considered a rare pair with relatively friendly relations.
Huang Fu of Jing State could hold shares in Mu Kingdom's Blue Wolf Arena; Mu Kingdom embraced the convergence of all faiths, and Huang Sheli had rushed to the grasslands at the first opportunity to spread the faith of the Yellow-Faced Buddha... All these were proof of the close diplomatic ties between the two states.
But that did not mean Jing and Mu were truly intimate without the slightest divide.
The harmony between the two states was inevitable under immense pressure, yet friction between them was equally inevitable when two great hegemonic states occupied the same region.
Cooperating amid competition, struggling amid unity—this had always been the main melody of the Northern Domain.
And every so often, there would be a grating discordant note like Huang Sheli's today.
Cang Ming was like a man lying in a sickbed who had suddenly been stabbed. His hasty counterattack was exceedingly weak.
Of the two objections he urgently raised, only the second could be considered somewhat damaging. After all, it occupied the moral high ground and concerned the original purpose of the Great Void Pavilion.
Well prepared, Huang Sheli addressed only the second point. "As everyone knows, my family holds shares in Mu Kingdom's largest arena, and we have deep experience in arena operations. In constructing the Great Void Arena this time, the Blue Wolf Arena will also provide comprehensive support—but the management of the Great Void Arena will still be entrusted to the Great Void Dao Lord, and its specific work